Carlos Pena

Research focuses on how animals (mostly birds) deal with a changing environment and organize their life cycles accordingly. A changing environment involves the predictable (e.g. night and day, seasons, tides) and the unpredictable (e.g. severe storms, drought, human disturbance). We are particularly interested in how animals perceive the environment (and what cues they use to time the stages of the life cycle), the neural pathways by which those signals are transduced into neuroendocrine and endocrine secretions, and the mechanisms by which these hormones regulate morphology, physiology, and behavior. Research Interests Environmental endocrinology My laboratory focuses on the neural and endocrine mechanisms underlying organism-environment interactions. We are particularly interested in the neural pathways for environmental signals affecting seasonality, mechanisms of coping with environmental stress (allostasis), and the social modulation of hormone secretion. This research also interfaces with how animals deal with global climate change, endocrine disruption, and conservation biology.

Grad Group Affiliations
• Animal Behavior
• Ecology Graduate Group
• Exercise Science
Courses
• NPB 101 Human Physiology, Fall
• NPB 142 Environmental Endocrinology: Mechanisms for Life Cycles, Winter Labs
• Wingfield Lab
o Christina Craig-Veit
• Wingfield lab
o Motoko Mukai
Field Sites
• University of California, Davis, Natural Reserve system
• Toolik Lake Field Station, Alaska
• Latitudinal and altitudinal gradients in Chile, South America
Honors and Awards
• Association for the Study of Animal Behavior Medal, 2003.
• Benjamin Meaker Fellowship, University of Bristol (1993-1994).
• Charles H. Revson Fellow in Biomedical Research, Rockefeller University (1981).
• Charles H. Revson Fellow in Biomedical Research, Rockefeller University (1981).
• Corresponding Fellow of the Deutsche Ornithologen Gesellshaft.
• Doctor Honoris Causa, from the Faculty of Science, Göteborg University, Sweden, 1998.
• Donald. S. Farner Medal, International Symposium of Avian Endocrinology, 1996.
• Elective Member, American Ornithologist's Union (1983).
• Elliot Coues Award of the American Ornithologist's Union (1987).
• Endowed Chair in Physiology, University of California, Davis. 2007-
• Fellow, American Ornithologist's Union (1989).
• Fellow, Animal Behavior Society, 1997
• John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (1993-1994).
• Russell F. Stark University Professor, University of Washington, 1996-2001.
• Shannon Award, National Institutes of Health (1992-1994).
• The Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award, Honorable Mention, University of Washington, 2004
• The Quest Award, from the Animal Behavior Society, 1996.
• Animal Behavior Society Exemplar Award (2009)
• Invited autobiography for “Leaders in Animal Behavior, Second Generation”. Cambridge University Press, (2009).
• Selected for “Profiles in Comparative Endocrinology” – special issue in featuring my research and papers by former students and postdoctoral fellows. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 2008.
• President, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, January 2003-2005.
• President, XXV International Ornithological Congress, 2006-2010.
• First Sinauer Lecture, University of Massachusetts, February 2007. Endowed Chair in Physiology, University of California, Davis. 2007- Selected for “Profiles in Comparative Endocrinology” – special issue featuring my research and papers by former students and postdoctoral fellows. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 2008. The Exemplar Award, Animal Behavior Society, for long term contribution to the study of animal behavior (2009). Invited autobiography for “Leaders in Animal Behavior, Second Generation”. Cambridge University Press, (2009). Honorary Doctor of Science Degree, University of Sheffield, July 2010. John T. Emlen Lecture, University of Wisconsin, October 2010. Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, December, 2010. Howard Bern Lecture, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Salt Lake City, Utah. January 2011. Distinguished Professor, University of California at Davis, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior. June, 2011. Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior Exemplar Award. Indiana University, 2012. Keck Distinguished Lecturer, North Carolina State University, November 2012. Special Symposium on Environmental Endocrinology in honor of the 65th. birthday of John C. Wingfield. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology annual meeting, Austin, Texas, January 2014. Invited testimony on the BRAIN Initiative representing the National Science Foundation to the USA House of Representatives, Appropriations Sub-Committee, February 2014. Elected Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, April 2014. E.O. Wiley Lecture, Sam Houston State University, October, 2014.
Professional Societies
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• American Ornithologist's Union
• Animal Behavior Society
• Asia and Oceania Society for Comparative Endocrinology
• Association of Field Ornithologists
• British Trust for Ornithology
• Cooper Ornithological Society
• Endocrine Society (U.K.)
• Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology
• Society for Comparative and Integrative Biology
• Wilson Ornithological Society
Degrees
• 1970 BS (Zoology) University of Sheffield
• 1973 PhD (Zoology and Comparative Endocrinology) University College of North Wales
• 1998 Doctor Honoris Causa University of Gothenburg, Sweden
• 2010 Honorary Doctor of Science University of Sheffield
• Publications
The concept of allostasis in biology and biomedicine
BS McEwen, JC Wingfield
Hormones and behavior 43 (1), 2-15
年份 2003 2925
2003
The" challenge hypothesis": theoretical implications for patterns of testosterone secretion, mating systems, and breeding strategies JC Wingfield, RE Hegner, AM Dufty Jr, GF Ball
The American Naturalist 136 (6), 829-846
1990 2095
1990
Allostasis and allostatic load: implications for neuropsychopharmacology
BS McEwen
Neuropsychopharmacology 22 (2), 108-124
2000 1777
2000
Ecological bases of hormone—behavior interactions: the “emergency life history stage”
JC Wingfield, DL Maney, CW Breuner, JD Jacobs, S Lynn, M Ramenofsky, ...
American Zoologist 38 (1), 191-206
1998 1204
1998
The Darwinian concept of stress: benefits of allostasis and costs of allostatic load and the trade-offs in health and disease
SM Korte, JM Koolhaas, JC Wingfield, BS McEwen
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 29 (1), 3-38
2005 1160
2005
Reproduction and resistance to stress: when and how
JC Wingfield, RM Sapolsky
Journal of neuroendocrinology 15 (8), 711-724
2003 995
2003
Actions of glucocorticoids at a seasonal baseline as compared to stress-related levels in the regulation of periodic life processes
MM Landys, M Ramenofsky, JC Wingfield
General and comparative endocrinology 148 (2), 132-149
2006 693
2006
Seasonal changes of the adrenocortical response to stress in birds of the Sonoran Desert
JC Wingfield, CM Vleck, MC Moore
Journal of Experimental Zoology 264 (4), 419-428
1992 690
1992